29 Incredible Facts Which Prove That Poverty In America Is Absolutely Exploding

By Michael Snyder, on October 27th, 2013

Did you know that the number of Americans on welfare is higher than the number of Americans that have full-time jobs? Did you know that 1.2 million public school students in the U.S. are currently homeless? Anyone that uses the term “economic recovery” to describe what is happening in the United States today is being deeply insulting to the nearly 150 million Americans that are considered to be either “poor” or “low income” at this point. Yes, things are great in New York City, Washington D.C. and San Francisco, but almost everywhere else economic conditions continue to steadily get worse. The gap between the wealthy and the poor is at a level that America has never seen before, and this is beginning to create a “Robin Hood mentality” that could cause a tremendous amount of social chaos in the years ahead. Anger at the “haves” in America continues to rise at a very alarming pace, and the “have nots” are becoming increasingly desperate. At some point all of this anger is going to boil over, and you won’t want to be anywhere around major population centers when that happens. Despite unprecedented borrowing by the federal government in recent years, and despite unprecedented money printing by the Federal Reserve, poverty in the United States keeps getting worse with each passing year. The following are 29 incredible facts which prove that poverty in America is absolutely exploding…

1. What can you say about a nation that has more people getting handouts from the federal government than working full-time? According to the latest numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of people receiving means-tested welfare benefits is greater than the number of full-time workers in the United States.

2. New numbers have just been released, and they show that the number of public school students in this country that are homeless is at an all-time record high. It is hard to believe, but right now 1.2 million students that attend public schools in America are homeless. That number has risen by 72 percent since the start of the last recession.

3. When I was growing up, it seemed like almost everyone was from a middle class home. But now that has all changed. One recent study discovered that nearly half of all public students in the United States come from low income homes.

4. How can anyone deny that we are a socialist nation when half the people are getting money from the federal government each month? According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, 49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program.

5. Signs of increasing poverty are even showing up in the wealthiest areas of the nation. According to the New York Post, New York subways are being “overrun with homeless“.

6. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, approximately one out of every six Americans is now living in poverty. The number of Americans living in poverty is now at a level not seen since the 1960s.

7. The gap between the rich and the poor in the United States is at an all-time record high. The wealthy may not consider this to be much of a problem, but those at the other end of the spectrum are very aware of this.

8. The “working poor” is one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. population. At this point, approximately one out of every four part-time workers in America is living below the poverty line.

9. According to numbers provided by Wal-Mart, more than half of their hourly workers make less than $25,000 a year.

10. A recent Businessweek article mentioned a study that discovered that 300 employees at one Wal-Mart in Wisconsin receive a combined total of nearly a million dollars a year in public assistance…

“A decent wage is their demand—a livable wage, of all things,” said Representative George Miller (D-Calif.). The problem with companies like Wal-Mart is their “unwillingness, not their inability, to pay that wage,” he said. “They hand off the difference to taxpayers.” Miller was referring to a congressional report (PDF) released in May that calculated how much Walmart workers rely on public assistance. The study found that the 300 employees at one Supercenter in Wisconsin required some $900,000 worth of public assistance a year.

11. The stock market may be doing great (for the moment), but incomes for average Americans continue to decline. In fact, median household income in the United States has fallen for five years in a row.

13. According to a Gallup poll that was recently released, 20.0% of all Americans did not have enough money to buy food that they or their families needed at some point over the past year. That is just under the record of 20.4% that was set back in November 2008.

14. Young adults are particularly feeling the sting of poverty these days. American families that have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37 percent.

17. According to one calculation, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of “Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.”

18. We are told that we live in the “wealthiest nation” on the planet, and yet more than one out of every four children in the United States is enrolled in the food stamp program.

20. It is being projected that approximately 50 percent of all U.S. children will be on food stamps before they reach the age of 18.

21. Today, approximately 17 million children in the United States are facing food insecurity. In other words, that means that “one in four children in the country is living without consistent access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life.”

22. It may be hard to believe, but approximately 57 percent of all children in the United States are currently living in homes that are considered to be either “low income” or impoverished.

23. The number of children living on $2.00 a day or less in the United States has grown to 2.8 million. That number has increased by 130 percent since 1996.

“The family had too much. Their income (and) lifestyle was better than his,” the source said.

The bloody suspect was caught holding the kitchen knife he used during the Saturday night rampage inside the Sunset Park apartment where he had been staying with the victims, the source added.

Sadly, this was not an isolated incident. All over the western world, a “Robin Hood mentality” is growing. This is something that I am so concerned about that I made it a big part of my new book. At this point, even wealthy Hollywood-types such as actor Russell Brand are calling for a socialist-style “revolution” and a “massive redistribution of wealth“.

Perhaps Brand does not understand that what he is calling for would mean redistributing most of his own wealth away from him.

When the next major wave of the economic collapse strikes, I fear that all of this anger and frustration that are growing among the poor will boil over in some very frightening ways. I believe that we will see a huge spike in crime and that we will eventually see communities all over America looted and burning.

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Oh man, I know a certain reader who must be salivating at the thought of wealth redistribution. 😉

Rodster

Salivating like Pavlov’s dog

Veronica

Greedy white men must surrender their wealth to the oppressed and this means women who were forced into your Natzi concentration homes to cook, clean and make babies. This era is a bright era for women who can live freely w/o any man dictating their patriarchy laws and regulations. I just has groupxxx with two of my girls and this felt empowering than being forced against my will by a oppressing husband. You men your masculine G*d and your Jeezus, Moohammad whatever can lick my poopchute for all I know!

Rhonda Renee Sessions

You’re sick in the head, girl!

Veronica

Don’t allow the men oppress you! The women’s right movement needs more support and members to foster an egalitarian society free from male oppression.

Rhonda Renee Sessions

I don’t need you to tell me to not allow men to oppress me. Even Jesus was FOR women being treated equally, and a true Christian man does that. You are liberal lesbian troll that is on here to disrupt the discussion of what is going to happen soon. I hope that you are able to KEEP your penthouse in the near future, because the way things are going, you’re going to be joining the homeless.

Tony Stewart

G o d Bless you for speaking out against the troll who is hopefully not a
miltary agent….I almost lost faith in the world when the Canadian
government were forcing their hoe-mo agenda to students….You should
check how Facebook is being infiltrated by the likes of Veronika….The
fascimist movement is going out of control with their leszbo and pro-peddle
agenda..

RarefiedSnotress

bitch

Rhonda Renee Sessions

Typical liberal response… don’t like what you hear/read, and you resort to name-calling. Really an adult response, now, is it? Not.

jaxon64

lady..go take your meds. For someone pretending to be a successful and independent woman, you can’t even construct an adequate sentence. Are you a high schooler whose boyfriend just dumped her?

Malcolm Reynolds

What the hell does that trash even mean?
When you say oppression, you mean men interested in women don’t you?

Deb

I take great offense to your way of thinking. You are embarrassing. I appreciate men for who they are. You sound like a very lonely person.

davidmpark

We need to get him and the new fem-bot troll Veronica together for a romantic date. Imagine the chemistry between those kids!

Though she does sound a lot like my Grandma Veronica… creepy.

Hambone

And they can give birth to the next Howard Dean… oh my goodness, it’s just so beautiful…

davidmpark

We came here for prepping info, and also help two star-crossed lovers find each other! 🙂 These are the moments that bring all sides together!! (tears)

El Pollo de Oro

Gary from Wisconsin was on a major liberal/progressive site a few months back having a vigorous and not-so-friendly debate with some angry radical feminists (very different audience on that site). The feminists were giving him hell, and he was giving it right back to them. Gary stepped right into the radical feminist lion’s den and was fearless about it.

davidmpark

Imagine the honeymoon!

Rodster

“When people lose everything and have nothing else to lose, THEY LOSE IT”

Senor Celente

Ralfine

No, they go home and watch X-Factor, eat chips and drink booze.

Veronica

Men do that. Women are becoming more independent and we work harder than men yet we earn 50% less than white Christian males.

Catalin Oancea

Clearly you are COINTELPRO. Your absurd statements can’t come even from an insane person on medication. Christian bashing, racist, feminist; come on, you can’t have them all and still be able to type. You know you will lose, turn to Christ while you still can, once He’s gathered together His people, there is no turning to Him anymore; and I’m not talking about the “Rapture”, I’m talking about the gathering together of the saints (2 Thessalonians 2, Matthew 24). Reject the mark, don’t be a fool, or Christ will reject you.

RarefiedSnotress

Many of us.even non-Jews, don’t worry about Christ’s rejection and really, I don’t think you are the one to speak for him.

nekksys

And here I thought Christ compelled us to go out and bear witness of Him… We have Scripture to demonstrate His character to us so we should be able to reasonably conclude what He would do in any given situation.

I guess not though… The Fasciminists say we shouldn’t follow Christ’s commands and shouldn’t be discipled to Him so I guess we should all stop…

If you knew your Jesus, you would surely know he is a Shepherd not a Rejector you pompous self-appointed women-hating Nitwits.

nekksys

I think it’s clear you don’t know Christ at all…

Catalin Oancea

I’ve met people like you who get offended when all I do is say what the Bible says:

“And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they
have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and
whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.” – Revelation 14:11

If that doesn’t sound like eternal rejection, maybe you can explain what does it mean.

Christ also said this:

“42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.” – John 8:42-43

Then in verse 44 he calls them children of the devil, the greatest liar of them all. It is a logical implication that the children of the devil will love lies rather than truth.

“And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.” – John 8:45

The problem you people have is with the Father who places in our hearts the desire to speak His words, not with us as mere souls trapped in flesh and bones. True Christians are not themselves when preaching, rather Christ speaks through them; that gets the devils in or around you fired up, thus you get offended for no reason apparently if the Bible is just a fairy tale book. If you cannot accept the words of the Bible then your heart is not right with God.

By the way, are you a COINTELPRO like Veronica? I see you and her have the same indoctrinating attitude about you. Also, Christian men don’t hate women, it’s the insecure women who hate themselves which vent the hate towards men; the push for sodomy, feminizing the man, the elites know how to make you insecure about yourselves and then channel that frustration towards the most inane actions like the women’s rights movement and feminism. God gave women duties that men don’t belong to and men things to do that women have no business getting into. The devil knows the complementary nature of creation, that is why he creates conflict between the different parts, to break the balance. Everyone who seeks conflict is imbalanced and unstable, betraying a devilish nature.

RarefiedSnotress

Grimm’s Fairy Tales says: “and they lived happily ever after.”

Catalin Oancea

That’s why you won’t see as many people getting offended and trying to silence the Brother’s Grimm tales, they appeal to the sinful nature and hold no real moral value other than what you will find in a four year old. The Bible, on the other hand, gets people real mad. Why so mad if it’s just fiction? You don’t get mad at Lord of the Rings or Star Trek fans who dress like their favorite character and speak Klingon or whatever, they are just weird. But we Christians, we are a plague on society.

Gay Veteran

Lord of the Rings or Star Trek fans don’t try and impose their beliefs on others

davidmpark

Got to admit: there’s a point there. But, they know that what they do is fantasy. Christianity is not fantasy.

RarefiedSnotress

I’m a secret agent for Satan, Sweetie .. muah

Catalin Oancea

Then you will understand if I tell you to burn in hell with your lying father.
Nah, just joking, that’s what Satan would want, for you to be a blind fool. I hope you get saved and get to meet Jesus Christ, you will be so happy. If not, your loss; sad, but I’ll get over it, I have God to comfort me.

seth datta

Exactly. All she has done is subvert the arguments from the real issues and attempted to turn the site into a laughing stock, by inciting others to respond to her inflammatory trolling comments.

And now other people (in government and media) talk about economic growth again (0.8%) and some people see the next bubble coming.

(What would they do with a Chinese growth of 8%?)

davidmpark

What would you do if something like that happened to you?

First thing would be to contact the Bishop – the local Gov would be useless and we’d need to put our plans for this situation in effect.

Next would be to get power going. We have plans and blueprints for that. Water and sewage are an issue, but I have those plans at the ready (and that includes creating renewable fuels). Food will be a little more difficult but not impossible; some folks will make do with catching snails and pigeons to breed, unless we get the right to have small livestock again. There’s a gardening class that’s starting soon; WWII victory garden methods. We also have a local storehouse for the needy. Our chemistry lab is not big enough for small-scale commercial size, but there are ways to make-do with what’s available.

How would you handle desperate, hungry people at your fence asking for food?

We have a local storehouse for excess; we’d direct them there. Also, we have some plants in our front landscape that’s edible.

And what if those people were armed and were not “asking nicely” for your food?

We have a neighborhood patrol already. If needed, the Ward areas can be walled off for added security. And I have tools and a separate power supply so I can machine anything we’d need.

We’ve been working on this for years. 🙂

IF you are prepared, you shall not fear.

Veronica

Women reading this thread: The Bishop is a male and he is oppressive. Don’t listen to these patriarchy Natzis.

Tony Stewart

Steven Spielberg’s wife is that you?

davidmpark

I think it’s my grandma…

davidmpark

Nanna Veronica, is that you?!

markthetruth

You Can Never Lose Everything an less your Dead,
as long as you have Life you can be a Survivor , as you become Creative . The Strong can Survive the Weak will be Destroyed if they do not get Courage !

the end…

Veronica

Men are weak. Women will rise against the patriarchy. In the name of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem the world will be in peace and equality. Men need to go. Darwin will assent to such a statement.

Rhonda Renee Sessions

Just as I though… a liberal who is not a Christian woman, herself. TRUE God-believing Christians, both men and women, don’t give a darn about what Darwin’s theory of evolution means! And it’s NOTHING but a theory… one that even Darwin himself refuted, before he died.

Gay Veteran

“…one that even Darwin himself refuted, before he died.”
PROOF please

davidmpark

He gave a litmus test at the end of “The Origin of Man” that ends up discrediting the work. Even the scientific community at the time brought that up, along with the fossil record discrediting his theory of evolution.

Gay Veteran

obviously nothing has changed since 1882

nekksys

When the SHTF, try to have a baby without a man…

And I would love to see how you respond to a bear attack…

RarefiedSnotress

Oh God, it’s very easy to have a baby w/o a man. All one needs is sperm and that only requires a donor.
Bear attacks, Martians, Bible Thumpers.. us women will survive.

nekksys

But where does the sperm come from?

Your score in anatomy and physiology?? ZERO. Fail…

RarefiedSnotress

Men are not spermatozoa. So maybe she needs a man for 6 minutes in a lab by your standards.. happy?

Jacob

Men would crush women given the lack of societal restraints. Just as they did in the past. Trust me, it is better you work with men then against them, or you may find yourself chained to the shoe that stomps you.

seth datta

Stop posting. Are you here to subvert this site away from the real issues? Did you get pumped and dumped recently? I don’t care about your issue; just get lost and stop ruining the site.

RarefiedSnotress

I kinda don’t those starving or in chronic pain would find that inspiring.

markthetruth

Then you need to read the story of Ernest Shackleton.

Staving and Pain Doesn’t compare to what he and his crew accomplished !!

the end…

SafetyViking

They would fall in my moat & be eaten by the alligators. Let them eat urinal cakes!

K

They have been slowly killing the middle class, since the seventies. In the sixties as a child my family lived in a middle class neighborhood. We had neighbors who owned planes, who owned good size boats. All of these folks were middle class. By the eighties, I did not know anyone who owned a plane or a boat. With each passing year people had less. Now it is hard for some to afford food. In the County I live in, 73% of the children are on the free meals program at school. Once they have everything you have, next them come for your life. The elites and the bankers are addicted to money, as bad as any drug addict is addicted to drugs. They are sick and evil people. So what would I do if someone shows up at my fence, and asks for food? Give it to them, for as long as I can. If they come to take it by force, resist to my last breath. What does it profit a man? To gain the entire world, if he loses his very soul.

Veronica

Men pfffttttt….I am a 25 year old female who works at a Top 5 bank in Manhattan. I earn enough money to put a $400,000 downpayment on my $1.5 million dollar loft and I am happier than ever that I don’t need any oppressing man to dictate what I should do or not do.
Women were oppressed since JEZZUS was spewing blasphemy against God’s chosen people. Yahweh is punishing you men and for a good cause! I hope you men rot in h-e-l-l!

Jim Davis

Soon may come a day when your banking “skills” won’t be worth much. When that day comes, you will probably want of those terrible creatures called men around.

Veronica

So what? I can apply for a teaching job and no I don’t need men those horrible creatures. You men are filthy and grotesque what is that long thingy hanging out from your torso yucky.

davidmpark

I think we just found 2Gary2 a date!

michaelbme

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Brendan Anthony

Veronica, Your sad comments of misandry, smack of child molestation or teen date rape. -Seek counseling before you harm yourself or a male work colleague!

Kent Harris

I am saddened that Veronica is so miserable in her life and thar she hates men so much. Jesus was a kind a gentle lamb to any who call upon His name.

SheLikesIt

You know you want it…..

jsmith

So Veronica, do you compensate by having the biggest battery operated dildo in Manhattan?

It is because we men are
romantic and you evidently
are not, therefore, you will
remain an old maid. By-the-
way, how old are you?

RarefiedSnotress

Yeah, maybe y’all will get lucky and she’ll be forced to gold dig.

Rodster

“and I am happier”

Wow if that’s your happy side i’d hate to see when you’re really angry. But that’s OK because i’m a big time investor who can buy Manhattan if I want. You see anyone can sound believable behind a keyboard.

Hambone

Yeah, I smell a troll.

davidmpark

Me too.

Nelson

I’ll bet something else smells too…

El Pollo de Oro

I strongly suspect that “Veronica” is really a frat boy who is pretending to be an angry, bitter radical feminist in order to get a reaction.

John Redman

Big time with $26 extra on your hands?

K

Thank-you for proving my point. I pity you. That level of hate in one so young. Turn from it before it consumes you.

Tony Stewart

Americans should expel you and the rest of your troublemaking friends to Madasgascar and not Jerusalem!!!

Hambone

Just my $0.02, but to everyone except the lovely and charming Veronica, I really think we need to stop feeding the troll… she’s had enough to eat for one day.

If we ignore her, she might leave and go to the Planned Parenthood blog to be with her own kind.

Tony Stewart

True…maybe she and her fesicimist friends might censor Facebook because their views aren’t being heard.

RarefiedSnotress

I find her refreshing.. We all have our pretensions, don’t we. Some live in an apocalyptic fantasy, others a more luxurious one.

Mal Reynolds

SARC?

RarefiedSnotress

lol

El Pollo de Oro

I think Veronica needs to go on a date with Prof. Tom Leykis and hear a dissertation on Leykis 101 (anyone who has heard “The Tom Leykis Show” will get the irony in that statement).

nekksys

I think K nailed you and your ilk spot on:

“The elites and the bankers are addicted to money, as bad as any drug addict is addicted to drugs. They are sick and evil people.”

You show your addiction by stating you can drop $400K on a $1.5M loft.

Then, you choose one, miniscule phrase and make her post all about that one, little phrase… “What does it profit a man?” A single phrase from a Scriptural passage the whole of which reads,

“What does it profit a man if he should gain the whole earth but lose his very soul?”

You, dear Lady, have done that very thing. You may well have gained the whole of the earth yet you have lost your very soul because you give safe harbor to hatred. You spew such acid from your lips yet I’m sure there were many men who helped you on your way to the top… Several of your college professors, your first employer, the owner of the company you work for at this very moment… I’m sure it never occurred to you to give thanks to the men who marched alongside your predecessors in order to get women the voting rights they so desperately deserved in 1920s. No, I’m sure that thought hasn’t even occured to you.

Lady, outwardly you could be the most beautiful woman this world has ever seen making even legendary Helen of Troy pale in comparison. Yet the stench of rot and decay in your very core makes you the ugliest beast I will ever know.

valentino

Jewish, lesbian and lonely… a good case for the mad house…

MeMadMax

I doubt anything you typed is true due to the ugly vocabulary…

seth datta

How much were you paid to troll?

Lead man

Wow!! Do you really think any man cares what you want?

joseph

Flying high for the moment? At 25 you still have a lot to learn! In an instant your bank job could be done, over, kaput but hey, ride the wave while the going is good. I’ll see you on the way down the ladder!

Reality BetraysUs

Jesus told us that where a person’s treasure is there is their heart also… I hope you realize that money will never have the ability to truly satisfy the spiritual needs in your life! Whatever reason you have for disliking men in general, I hope that God heals your heart so you can one day you can have a trusting relationship with a man you can respect and love. In Jesus name I ask that God would touch your heart and heal you, so that you can have the kind of relationship with men that you should be able to have without the excess baggage!

I am a CIA super secret astronaut who plays for the Denver Broncos in between space flights. I also have invented the cure for aids/hiv and will release it very soon. I will make billions. I am happy that I don’t need veronica oppressing me.

Hey Veronica:
Yesterday was Halloween. Are
you so ugly that you did not
require a mask to collect your
tricks?

RarefiedSnotress

I’m in Florida. I see tons of boats. Sounds like a regional thing. My ex-bf in NY had a boat,a very high-paying job, and enough stress to kill him at 52 making him an eternal bachelor..I found out he died through his yacht club website. Boats aren’t everything..

K

As you say yourself, he had a high paying job. I was pointing out that many things are now beyond middle class means, that used to not be.

Reality BetraysUs

NEWSFLASH! Youtube has a video on this world banker explaining that the previous distribution of wealth was USAworld 8020 percent in 1990, in the future this will shift to USA 40%, World60%, you can see this when Apple refused to bring back their profits from oversees last year because they would have had to pay 35% tax on it, so they are leaving in foreign countries to grow without taxation! This is just one reason why the USA will continue to get poorer each yr as time goes on…

Guest

It’s an easy fix. But not a politically expedient one.

Reality BetraysUs

The rich will tell you that a boat is just an expensive hole in the water to pour your money into….Very few of them actually use them, they are too busy paying for them and the upkeep!

laura m.

It’s smart not to go outside and confront any one for any reason..for your families sake! If you have a wife and girls, they could get raped. Your family comes ahead of anyone else. That beggar in the movie, later brought all his friends to break in the man’s compound. If you don’t brag/blab your biz, you will be safer. Donate food to a third party like a church pantry as James Rawles advised on his website. Remain anonymous and low key. Anything else is stupid.

K

I would normally agree, all of your advice is excellent. But my place is remote and high in the mountains. And during the winter it averages 3 feet of snow on the ground. If someone finds they way in here, it will just about take divine guidance. And yes, I expect it to happen during the Winter.

Robert

Or you can do like in the bible and offer your young daughters for them to rape.

jarradcvh059

my Aunty Bailey just got a twelve month old Nissan Murano
CrossCabriolet SUV by working part-time off of a laptop… you can try here
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Reality BetraysUs

You hit the nail on the head! Jesus said what will it profit a man if he gain the whole world but loses his soul! He also said that we should learn to be content with what we have! Even proverbs says it is better to ask God for just enough so that you will not be so poor so as to have to steal to eat, but not so rich that you become arrogant and forget that God is your maker… As a contrast someone once asked Rockefeller how much is enough? His answer: Always just a little bit more… The rich are never satisfied with what they have and the bible tells us that their riches will be a judgement in the last days against them!

K

I have always seen wealth as a sickness. But it is only lately having reached the status of old man. That I see how deep that sickness goes. Wealth beyond a certain point, is just dead weight on your Soul.

Guest

The greater sickness is envy and laziness.

James Vaughan

I believe that Pierce Brosnan, playing James Bond, said it best when addressing a sexy but evil temptress: The world is not enough. Incidentally, I also believe that is exactly what a certain J.C. told a certain S. in the desert at the end of forty days.

Albert8184

Not surprising that they want to kill the middle class. Read Marx. And no, the citizens are addicted to money. The bankers and the elites are just addicted to the power that comes in exchange for the handouts..

Ralfine

If you were a socialist nation you’d have free healthcare for everyone and free school and university.

The banks and the defense industry were state owned, and the major industries, especially fuel, heavy industry, railway, transport, communication, postal services.

When half your people are paid by the state to survive this seems to me that the government is owned by the industry.
And the industry decides that the taxpayer is paying the bill for people creating profit for the industry.

Veronica

Female teachers are underrepresented in schools and you misogynist men go on a witchhunt to criminalize female teachers who were forced to have intercourse with 10 year old male students.

Veronica if you don’t like America go back to SWEDEN where everybody is a HOMOSEXUAL.

Raul

“Female teachers are underrepresented in schools and you misogynist men”
Veronica, White women harass all the time Native American Men aka Amerindians they call them mutts, scum. monkeys, etc.

Veronica you are SCUM, I have more respect for Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez. You are a Feminist and racist. By the way there is a video called The American Dream in youtube where everybody hates the BANKSTERS the number is growing.

Tony Stewart

“you misogynist men go on a witchhunt to criminalize female teachers who
were forced to have intercourse with 10 year old male students.”

you do the CRIME, you do the TIME self-entitled leftwing communist!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this why there are so many of you females are going into teaching??!! To get laid by boys who are entering puberty?! Hahaa! Insecure hoemo.

Ralfine

And how is this relevant to my post?

seth datta

This drone-bot/computer AI/paid shill who is wasting webspace is really getting on my nerves. The NS@ must be really bored or desperate today.

joseph

You are a wacko!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Veronica

The patriarchy must collapse. This age is a bright age for women. I am independent and I can flaunt my cleavage and if any male dares to stare at it I can spray mase into his eyes and call the police to imprison him for at least 30 years for sxxual assault.

White adult males are responsible for the patriarchy and we as white women are oppressed by these fiends. A 14 year old male is more obedient to women than a 18 year old misogynist white male. Females must stand up against the adult men and if they have intercourse with underaged boys, then women must stand together to decriminalize female to minor relationships. The patriarchy is depriving women’s rights to their bodies and orientation.

Jim Davis

I am so glad I don’t live in Manhattan. Is Veronica typical of the “women” there?

Veronica

So you go for Asian and Middle Eastern women to oppress them in your patriarchy? Get a life loser. My white butt is more powerful than your prophets Jeezus and Moohammer.

Raul

“My white butt is more powerful than your prophets Jeezus and Moohammer.”
Yea right don’t start crying when you get in a car accident and become disabled or have a heart attack and beg for life. Veronica there is no GOD!!! You are alone in this world, the universe will take care of you whether you like it or not 🙂

Tony Stewart

Judging by your comments you sound like a Jewwwww.or who claims to be Jewwwws but are really Synagogues of Satan!!!!!

nekksys

Bet I could seduce you in less than 5 minutes…

RarefiedSnotress

Ok veronica, you can stop perving now.

seth datta

COINTELPRO 2.0 has a mission to identify all Christian (=’terrorist’) sites and then troll the site to get others to spout out hate filled diatribe to subvert the arguments from the real issues and thereby discredit the site.

TtT Engine

The “war on poverty”, BIG GARGANTUAN, DEVOURING, ROMANESQUE STYLE GOVERNMENT, the great entitlement left wing society, like everything they touch, is an abject failure in of itself and for everything around it. Our left wing, secular society is rising and crashing at the same time. It will also bring down so much around its perimeter. This shift away from our Judaio-Christian foundations metastasized on 8+15+1969 and is in full bloom as we sit. Any sane society would give Judaio-Christian Constitutional conservatism a rebirth. Yet we do not live in a sane society because “liberalism is a ‘dangerous’ mental disorder, so this will not happen if the man gods have their way. Love of Government has replaced Love of God. Prep your soul and prep your life. GOD WILL have the last word ! Christi Fidelis !!

Tony Stewart

I agree with everything except the Judaio-Christ ian values

Reason is read the comments from Veronica and she is more than a
self-entitled left wing m an-ha ter. The passage from the Holy B i b l e
informs about those who claim to be Jewwws but are Synagogues of Satan.

Veronica and Gary2Gary are misled by Satan’s agenda. Maybe Veronica and Gary2 are the Synagoge of Satan Jewwws..

Chri stians shouldn’tbe tolerating Z ionists who besmirch the name of
the Lord. Christi anity is a separate religion from I slam and Z ionist
Jewwdaism.

TtT Engine

Christ perfected the Old Testament including the Ten Commandments. He did not abolish it. We pray that all Jewish people will come to see that Christ is the Son of God. There is no need for hatred. There are pockets of Satanists, scribes and Pharisees that have bored their way into all Christian faiths. Any so called Christian, this includes the Catholic hierarchy, who consistently has not placed a Pro-Life agenda in the forefront of their voting ballot and life action, is a sell out, a fake, a phony and a fraud. This is a core value to any true Christian/person of God and cannot be bargained away/sold for 30 pieces of silver, in order to justify voting for someone like Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, et. als. YOU have destroyed our nation. Please God spare the faithful. Christi Fidelis !

John Redman

Any person that seeks to be led by Christ will certainly not be paying taxes, voting or in any way worshiping other gods (earthly government which, last time I checked, murders and steals to enrich its ‘friends’). That give unto caesar stuff was misdirecting a-holes that were not bright enough to know that all things belong to God. Are YOU bright enough (I hope so)?

Gay Veteran

“…Any sane society would give Judaio-Christian Constitutional conservatism a rebirth….”
riiiight, like in the 1850s

Ricardo

So funny that Veronica (well sad really) mentions Darwin in a positive spin ……after all he was a male ……. I thought you hated males

Tony Stewart

“In Miami, 45 percent of all children are living in poverty.”

And left-wing fembots who are teachers teach unholy Sexx-Ed classes to students, then some of them have explicit conduct with their students, and all these left-wing females receive as punishment is a tenured job with a 99.9% chance for promotion and salary increase!

Criminals are running the public sector unions! Government is corrupt!

RarefiedSnotress

Us left-wing fembots think you right-wing male-bots only worry about your units.

Airedale

Actually, we right wing malebots worry about our kids and the world the left wingers will leave it in. Left wingers like Hilter, Stalin, Mao and what ever American equivalent comes along.

maxparrish

The Left wing owns all the ghettos. Progressivism at it’s finest social experiment. Since the ’60’s it has not improved at all. It is more profitable to breed than work. (It insures that vote at the expence of everybody else’s pocket. Well the 50% of the full time worker, that is.)

Gay Veteran

Hitler was right-wing

John Redman

No, he headed a socialist government.

Gay Veteran

try again, Hitler came to power in a conservative coaltion

Momof4

You are starting to lose credibility when you mention Russell Brand….LOL!!!

ralfyman

In a socialist state, the means of production are controlled by citizens.

GSOB

They are still citizens

ralfyman

The U.S. is not a socialist state but capitalist, and what we are seeing now is the result of the same.

GSOB

Not the same

ralfyman

“The same” means capitalism. That is, what we are seeing now is the result of capitalism.

The typical electricity-generating windmill is available in kit form or as a do-it-yourself design. A simple 1X6 can be carved into a two-sided propellor and fitted onto an alternator. The alternator is placed on the flat side of a 2X4, about 6′ long; whittled to a 2X2 from middle to the other end. A 2’X4′ fin of metal or plywood would work for a directional fin. About 2′ back from the alternator on the 2X4, cut the latter perpendicular ’til it comes off and reattach on one side with a strong hinge. On the alternator side attach a 2X2 4′ long with a 1’X2′ square fin on the end. This is your governor and can have a cut off cord attached. On the bottom, attach a 3/4″ sch 80 conduit or steel pipe using a collar screwed underneath of the narrowing side of the 2X4; this is your mounting. Attach a 1″ sch 80 conduit or steel pipe to a 4X4 and secure this to a tall object. Run wires from alternator down a hole through the 2X4 into the 3/4″ pipe and into the 1″ pipe, and down to your lights or battery bank.

Hope this is helpful!

davidmpark

There’s also running an alternator attached to a small rototiller motor. Looking for some plans; thought it was in my library…

davidmpark

Okay, found it.

Haven’t built this one yet. But the idea is to use a horizontal shaft rototiller motor or tractor motor. A vertical shaft will work; it’s just a little a tricky, but for the sake of space, I’ll stick with the horizontal shaft tractor motor. Attach your car’s alternator as this is usually the best option using any tight fitting pipe and attach with any through bolt necessary. Make sure your alternator has a voltage regulator, or you might burn out your inverter, batteries, or wires. This is a good backup to the windmill turbine.

By converting to use natural gas, one can build a anaerobic digester and get free natural gas. Or build a gasifier and use wood gas (methanol) to power the generator.
Either one can work if gasoline becomes a problem.

nekksys

Wood gas isn’t entirely methanol. It contains methanol as well as other hydrocarbons similar to gasoline and diesel. Even so it’s a great alternative to fossil fuels and returns a pretty good amount BTUs compared to gasoline.

MeMadMax

Even better is a “wood gas” generator. Brits used it during WW2 when the germans were about to cut off all gas supplies to the brits…. Worth checking out. Its gas that can be used to power your normally gasoline powered vehicle even thou there is none…

davidmpark

I have looked into it and I love the idea of methanol!

Best parts are the gasifier is so much easier to build and operate than the anaerobic digester and helps deal with difficult to compost organic leftovers.

The only problem might be that the gas from the wood hopper needs to be forced through the filter with a pump – that needs electricity most of the time. A mill powered pump (wind or water) can do this job without the need for power, though.

DJohn1

People are just beginning to figure out they have been sold down the river by the Representatives in both houses of Congress and Presidents from both Political Parties.
Ross said it best. That sucking sound you hear is your jobs going South to Mexico.

Clinton signed agreements selling all working people down the river.
Then you had Reagan’s cronies in the labor department that did some pretty illegal things against the working people of this country. So we had Bush for 8 years and now Obama.
Not one of these people have been for the working classes of this country.
But the sheep are slow to react. Like most herd animals they only react in a total panic and stampede.
Well we are way beyond jobs going to Mexico now. Now jobs are going to China and India. Taiwan used to be a favorite along side South Korea and a few others.
This whole scene has happened before in Britain. They put all the jobs in the cheap labor countries in the Empire. Then WWII came along and after that it was all down hill for the British People.
Those companies in the colonies all over the world? They were nationalized by the governments of the colonies as they all declared independence from Britain. Nationalized is a semi-polite way of stealing a company.
Thing is it didn’t really work. All the repair parts were elsewhere. A lot of those factories are now empty with broken machines with no way to fix them.
Love to break it to you greedy souls in management in these companies exporting our jobs. History repeats itself for those that don’t learn from history.
All those factory jobs in China? Well nations go to war. All those factories will be nationalized by China some where down the road.
Then these greedy little corporations will go bankrupt.
The only thing we can do here is fire the people in that Congress and the Presidency that allowed it to happen. Right now the only thing that will work is to start over with a brand new bunch.
Then we have to have representatives that are going to look out for our interests for a change. Personally, I think we have waited too long for this to be accomplished in a short period of time.
The only way this economy is going to heal is for it to go down the tubes and start over.

Brendan Anthony

‘Exploding’ is correct, because a downturn has it’s own spiraling momentum that quickens as businesses without customers layoff workers who can no longer be customers elsewhere, and on it goes!

Zach Watkins

A strong family structure & lots of work is the only thing that’ll save this republic. Not taxing the rich, corporations, or more so-called civil rights legislation Obama & the Democrats always talk about.

We’ve been heading this way since LBJ’s Great Society legislation became law in 1965.

Gay Veteran

can’t have “lots of work” when American jobs are being shipped to foreign countries

cannuck21

As individual there is so very little that we can do to stop this decent into chaos. Support our families and help our neighbours as best we can. And… pray to the Lord for guidance and safety through these changing time.

Richard

Sorry, I hate to remind you, but it was “the Lord” that was behind the current situation in the first place.

jaxon64

Do you mean that when the Lord gave us free will He caused this?
That a loving God who did not want a bunch of robots but instead chose to give us the ability for self determination is at fault…because we are allowed to reap what we have sown?
So that if I choose to disavow and deny Him a place in my life on earth that in death He will honor my wishes and have me seperated from Him?
If this is what you refer to as the Lord being behind it all–then yes, you are actually right..

jakartaman

Free will and predestination co-exist. You make a decision and that path is predetermined until another decision changes the path.

laura m.

Cannuck 21 and others: The Nat. Geo show “when the lights go out” last eve shows the fix most will be in: trapped in an elevator or underground subway, on the hwy, in a high rise condo,etc. The two sons of that prepper dad had no parental discipline period, and blabbed everything to the neighbors. Then they were raided. Folks, don’t tell anyone you are stockpiling, stay low key for safety and your family. Don’t tell your kids since kids will blab anyway. When the hammer drops discipline the kids to do as they are told. But then, kids will cuss out the parents because of their ill upbringing, so it’s best they run off and fend for themselves. Family life today is a total farce w/kids ruling the home. Get barter networks started to incl skills, hand tools, etc. Adults shouldn’t have to be “advised” on prepping, etc. any more than when to take a bath, or have their car serviced. Everyone is resp. for their household and to MYOB . Most people are stuck in stupid anyway and have zero common sense.

nekksys

Side thought here: When the SHTF, those loud mouth kids who think Mommy and Daddy Prepper won’t shoot them to shut them up will have a HUGE surprise coming…

maxparrish

The NDAA makes hoarding illegal in times of emergancy so were martial law be declared the government would just take your stuff anyway.

Kids should be taught like the Jewish kids or Native American kids. Obedience could save their lives.

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
-Robert Heinlein

…..I would add to that that every human should be able to shoot a gun and ride a horse.

chilller

I’d like to see Michael to an article listing the reasons why and how we got into this predicament and point to the characters responsible. We know where we are and where we’re going to end up…but let’s do some troubleshooting here to get to the root of why that is. There are players out there pulling strings. If we go after their puppets, my guess is they will gladly give their puppet masters if “conditions” are right.

RarefiedSnotress

Michael’s style is mainly to quote, deride, and have you worry.

Richard

I don’t really agree but I do wish he’d stop the “tear-jerking” language which was the object of my post above. His prose would be so much stronger if he’d let US be the arbiter of how serious (sorry, absolutely serious!) this crisis is. I’ve been saying this from the very beginning and he’s “improved” immensely (remember the repeated words: “very very”, “really really”)? They’ve all gone and I must congratulate him on a superb job of information which is unequalled anywhere else that I know of on the blogosphere.
Keep up the good work, Michael 😉

jaxon64

and yes Richard–if you’ll notice on #22 Michael wrote, ” It may be hard to believe but…”
Which is leaps and bounds above the “if you can believe it…”
Keep up the good work Michael and keep improving–to keep striving to improve may be the essence of human nature.

nekksys

I’m not worried… In fact, I embrace the coming collapse. I have everything in order to survive it all quite well and be fine condition after.

Michael pulls data together and puts it into a cohesive collection where you can derive your own conclusions. That why he ends his articles with questions so often…

Besides, if you don’t like them, don’t read them and go find another site to troll.

And try Thinking Deep for a change.

RarefiedSnotress

The articles are an interesting cut-and-paste compendium of other’s statististics and quotes to which Michael generally adds his derisions to fear monger. I find it slanted yet interesting. I enjoy the reparte on the blogs. I’ll be here to keep you thinking even if I make you defensive and inaccurately insulting.

MrsBulldoggy .

If they are so horrible, why are you even reading them? “Snot” fits you perfectly…

RarefiedSnotress

I didn’t say anything was horrible.. female dog fits you perfectly

MrsBulldoggy .

If you are going to insult me, as least be original…

RarefiedSnotress

Martians wouldn’t even want to probe you… how’s that?

MrsBulldoggy .

Old, weak and tired, like you…

nekksys

Unfortunately, you have yet to make any statement that I find compelling enough to consider on any level other than passing disinterest…

RarefiedSnotress

I know.. I’m so disinteresting you won’t even read or comment on me anymore.

Ayn Rand

How interesting a viewpoint. You appear to believe that everything is fine and dandy in the world. How is that? When our currency is rapidly inflating, the elite are taking home more than their fair share, and poverty is spreading like the black plague. Things are getting tough, whether you listen to Michael or not. I have a question, what is going right in this world, in your opinion?

Richard

What is the difference between “Poverty is Absolutely Exploding” and “Poverty Is Exploding?

Richard

By the way, I should add that this is a really excellent article 😉

Tim

“Absolutely” is an adverb that modifies “exploding.” It means with no qualification, restriction or limitation.

Aren’t you the guy who tried to correct Michael’s grammar in another article that he wrote several weeks ago? I believe the article was about the problems with the Obamacare website.

Richard

I’m thrilled at your interpretation, Tim. Perhaps you could regale us with an account of an explosion that you are familiar with which is, in fact, “qualified, restricted or limited”. I am all ears.

RarefiedSnotress

emphatic form

Richard

as in… “very pregnant” or “very unique”??

jakartaman

Has anyone thought that just maybe its GODS wrath. After all as a specie have ignored, attacked and demeaned our creator. The condition of the world is not surprising. It will get much worse and when it does maybe people will figure it out and repent- I doubt it -we ate too arrogant

RarefiedSnotress

Me personlly, No. It’s a bureaucratic manipulation.

RarefiedSnotress

Michael couldn’t resist that dopey “4 out of every 5 adults in the United States “struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives”. statistic again.
The food stamp and welfare numbers are bad, but just who are we counting in? What segments of population? Retirees?..most can stash their assets easily enough to get on food stamps.. especially when they know they are getting a reliable social security check.
Children? It’s probably the case that more low-income people have children than high-income.. you would think the opposite, but that’s likely the way it is.
Maybe we should make a statistic that only includes working age adults for a more accurate view of the food stamp and benefit thing.
Urban areas are still the way to go for many people.. better jobs, opportunities to meet singles, etc.
Suggesting that people,especially young people, live in sprawled out areas or the woods, probably isn’t the best advice.
I plan to move further into the city in the near future.

Me

It’s called debit!!! Everyone I know is in debit over there heads. No one told you to acquire massive debit, you chose to do so, people are reaping what they have sown you should see the video called Changes coming to social security disability : Attorney, also a article titled Groups that don’t pay taxes. The NFL and church’s are going to pat taxes, the people in this country have done it to themselves you can contact credit card comp and they will work with you if there’s a will there’s a way.

jox

It’s obvious that in the west, and specially in the USA, we need to change the rules of the markets, taxes and so on, in a way that guarantees an important wealth redistribution. Working people is heavily taxed, while financial income are not. I don’t think this is socialism, for me it’s only a fair playing field. In my opinion socialism is to create 85 billion every month and send it to the pockets of the rich.

XSANDIEGOCA

It’s all part of the plan. Financial collapse. Social collapse. Martial Law. Obama declares himself King. A new dark age.

RarefiedSnotress

We’ve been waiting for this collapse for years upon years. He can probably eek by another 3.

nekksys

It started in 2008. It won’t be final for several more years. These things don’t accelerate until there is a run on the banks. That hasn’t happeneed yet so stay tuned…

I’m surprised Michael doesn’t pickup and move to Canada with the way he thinks things are so bad, and that collapse is impending.
It should be easy for him to do considering his wife is Canadian, he has no kids, and he’s used to moving around already.

nekksys

I’ll check back with you in another year and we’ll see if you don’t agree with him by then.

Trailer Park Investor

Weather the rants and raves are true here don’t mean much to me. As when SHTF there will be a great purification – a day of reckoning.
No matter who you are, what you are, what you beleive in, who you voted for, where you work, the money (you think) you have in the bank, one day it will all be gone. And then you will see just who your true friends and family are and what you are made of.
IF you survive…

RarefiedSnotress

Yes, but in another breath, he went on about the exploding homelessness in nyc that is filling the subways.

El Pollo de Oro

Developers and gentrifiers in NYC would love to chase the homeless out and pretend they don’t exist. That way, Muffy and Buffy and Biff won’t have to see them begging for change and have their “beautiful view” spoiled by reality.

NoSheDidin’t!

I already had a man come knocking to my door asking for food, though he did offer to help with some needed yard work. I appreciatye someone who is willing to reciprocate someway. And the nation has not reached chaotic mob status yet. We shared food with him and he helped with the yard…haven’t seen him since. Then it dawned on me, you never know if you were entertaining angels…Hebrews 13.2.

laura m.

No she: I never answer the door for strangers period. With home invasions increasing, esp a woman alone, it’s too risky. I keep a no salesman/canvassing/surveying sign on my front window besides.

RarefiedSnotress

Ralfine has a pocket.. uh, female part.

Ralfine

Does your mom know what you are doing at the Internet?

RarefiedSnotress

See I knew it.. you didn’t deny having a pocket.. uh, female part.

M W

“How can anyone deny that we are a socialist nation when half the people are getting money from the federal government each month?”
Well, our ruling oligarchy is comprised of the business class, not the party bosses. The system we are currently laboring under is more accurately called facism.

M W

“Perhaps Brand does not understand that what he is calling for would mean redistributing most of his own wealth away from him.”
Brand’s intelligence is razor sharp. You misunderestimate him.

ConcernedAmerican

I have heard several very wealthy people say “redistribute the wealth.” I am just wondering why they haven’t practiced what they preach? I haven’t seen any of them handing out money in poor areas of the USA. I haven’t seen multi-million dollar homes being sold so the money can be given to the poor.

Reality BetraysUs

Answer K you are one of the lucky ones! you still have a fence! Put your trust and faith in Jesus and do not do anything that would lead others to think otherwise least they try to steal it from you. What amazes me is no-one has ever tried to steal the kingdom of God from me, even though it is the most valuable thing I have…

frank1569

Some form of hybrid democratic socialist system is the only answer when the ‘haves’ not only hoard all the wealth, but use that wealth to rig the system to hoard more wealth.

It works for the NFL, the most profitable sport in history. Shared revenues, salary caps, unionized workforce, universal healthcare, pensions, and strict, swiftly enforced penalties for violation of the rules.

Socialism doesn’t have to mean WE’RE TAKING ALL OF YOUR HARD-EARNED MONEY AND GIVING IT TO LAZY PEOPLE. It means regulating those suffering from such an insane level of greed, they’re unable to control their insatiable appetite, no matter the consequences to society.

Our refusal to control the crazy money addicts is why we are where we are today. Nobody needs billions of dollars of personal wealth. Period. Either we put a leash on the uber-greedy maniacs, or we’re doomed.

maxparrish

Who is “our” and who is it that decides what that limit is? That is antithetical to the Constitution and what this country was based on, the opportunity for success— not the guarantee of success.

You…or we…don’t have to watch the NFL! This is the nature of competition.

“There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent — William Graham Sumner’s famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. The first may be wise or unwise, an effective or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged — but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty. The second seeks equality of outcome and is entirely antithetical to liberty.”
—Milton Friedman

PeaceAngel

IF the handful of people who KNOW what is going on do NOT rise up THEN America is OVER. IF there was movement to NOT pay taxes next year that could start a movement. WHO wouldn’t agree not to pay taxes under the present conditions? I don’t have reason to believe this will happen because Americans are lazy and complacent and the last resort is an armed run on the White House but they have seriously beefed up LEO especially in DC. Obama reportedly has three times the security of any other president before him. America is OVER

Wal-Mart has been in the news a lot lately and in those articles they are saying more than half of all Wal-Mart employees nationally are on government welfare.

tacoma

Some call the current economy ‘socialist’. This is wrong. The current economy has a large welfare state component, but it is hardly socialist.

But why did this happen? It happened because of failure of the American form of capitalism. It is a form that is unsustainable and will result in society collapse. The headlines of crimes and decay, insane amount of debt, is prove positive that American style of economics has failed.

Capitalism is good for the private economy – this is well established and has been adopted by vast majority of countries in the world. But no single economic system can work for everybody and on everything.

There are many things a capitalist system cannot work – which is why there is a government sector, a public sector, a NGO sector, a volunteer industry, a family welfare sector, a fine art sector, a basic science research economy, a aerospace exploration industry, a pubic health sector, a financial and transportation regulator sector, a …. you get the point.

Capitalism requires a capital to invest and a return on investment on a reasonable time frame. This is taught in economic 101 courses. But there are many things that cannot have such a return, or the return will violate capitalism rules, or people just don’t want such a return.

Do you want you fire department to have a ROI? They won’t put out a fire until you make a payment to satisfy their ROI profitability. Or do you want the vast amount of money you paid to educate your kids a capitalist ROI? You will unlikely get your money back from your kids you know. So why do you do it – raise you kids without a financial ROI? Because you love your kids far more than your capitalism ideology.

Therefore a successful economy requires a sound balance between a capitalist private economy where there must be a profit, a welfare economy where profit is not essential but income and expense must balance, and a social economy where the state runs things funded by taxation because simply this is what people want.

It takes a smart country to balance these 3 to produce a net wealth gain and a happy society. And this is exactly where USA has failed. It let the private economy prosper at the expense of welfare, yet let the social sector prosper from debt financing. The result is a large section of the middle class goes into welfare after being rejected by the capitalist sector, while the social & welfare sectors combined suck in ever more debt to stay alive.

But why does this happened? I think it’s because the USA, after the Cold War, has allowed itself transformed into a pure capitalist marketplace. It is a country in name only. Can a country be just a pure marketplace? Well, if it can, then there is no need to have a country in the first place. Because in a marketplace ‘jungle’, the strong will always win and the weak will always die, which is reflected in a capitalist private sector. They invented a thing called country precisely to not have a pure economic jungle.

condaggitt

I still say the easiest way to find out the scammers from the truly needy is to sit them in class 20 hours a week and learn how to read write and speak English. Make sure they know how to have a FB page in English. Once they pass English, then on to some job training. I’ll bet at least 1/3 will quit the first month

Libsare Ajoke

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Dietl

I think that most articles, including this one about poverty tend to ignore the hidden economy. Many of the people on welfare, EBT, etc. earn a significant income through the drug trade, prostitution and various vices. A short drive through any housing project will reveal luxury cars, children with smart phones and designer named clothing. In the country many of the recipients of government subsidies are supplementing their income with methamphetamine production, EBT scams and many other illicit activities. Measuring true poverty is a very difficult task in today’s United States.

ConcernedAmerican

I know a rural area where about 50% are on welfare or food stamps. Many of them have no car or have a car that is duct taped together.

Maybe the high end cars you spoke of belong to the slum lord who is there to collect rent?

Christine

Americans are used to being “entertained”, as if the nightly news were a fictional TV drama, by the horrors of growing poverty, desperation and extreme violence already firmly entrenched in many societies abroad. Imagine when it suddenly sneaks in their own back doors while they’re half asleep and channel surfing on their cozy sofas. This nation is receiving a spine-chilling wake-up call, but so many just keep hitting the snooze button.
Hebrews 13:5,6
” God has said, ‘Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.’ So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.’ “

2Gary2

Yep those conservative funnel all the wealth to the top and cut taxes for the rich sure are not working.

We need to heavily tax corporations like walmart and spread the wealth to their workers so the tax payer does not subsidize their low wage model.

Tax the greedy to help the needy!

ConcernedAmerican

What concerns me about taxes is:

1) When is the last time a financially poor person was placed in political power? If poor people were placed in power, how long would it be before they were bought/paid off and just like the others?

2) If politicians are wealthy, and they are making the rules and laws, will they make laws that take their own wealth?

3) If the wealthy make tax loopholes for themselves, and their corporate friends, who will pay the taxes? It will be passed to the working-class people, as usual.

Check out how much in taxes many companies actually pay.

It will never be fair. There are people on earth that enjoy making things miserable and unfair for other people. There is no law or tax that can make those people fair, or kind.

2Gary2

You may be correct about #1 however, we do know that financially rich people do a poor job so I would be willing to try a poor person.

ConcernedAmerican

Yes, I would like to give a poor person a chance in politics too. Even if they remained honest and true, they would have the obstacle of Crony Capitalism. So, those in power have made sure they have their bases covered.

Libsare Ajoke

you are an effeminate joke and lick the obama testicle

2Gary2

Michael–the sad fact that many on welfare are working full-time at these low wage crap jobs–sometimes they are working 2-3 jobs.

Corporate welfare is so much higher that any welfare for the poor.

ConcernedAmerican

There is a website, House the Homeless, that has some interesting information on it. I am currently reading his book “Looking up at the bottom line.”

I know many very hard-working people that are living paycheck to paycheck, or that are living in debt just to pay basic bills. I have met full-time workers that can not afford electricity or choose between food and heat in the winter. I remember a time in America where a mechanic or a janitor could not only support themselves and a family, but many working people were able to save and send their kids to college. We have gone from working people being able to send their kids to college to some working people wondering if they will be able to afford basic things, after working all day.

Something is very wrong and broken when a working person can not afford basic bills for themselves. Yet, people ask why others are not having children or getting married. Who can afford to?

no what i mean vern?

What is being said here is that the US, a wealthy country, has such a massive amount of poverty.

Libsare Ajoke

you are an effeminate joke

2Gary2

ok hoss

davidmpark

Did you ever really watch Bonanza? Hoss had a look of emptiness sometimes; but he was intelligent, a gentleman, loyal, honorable, and got a lot of girls!

2Gary2

conservatives are crashing and burning.

We need to heavily tax the rich and spread the wealth. Russell Brand is 100% correct.

Libsare Ajoke

LMAO

2Gary2

you laugh your a off you must be pretty small by now.

2Gary2

The wealthy and rich can buy peace by agreeing to wealth redistribution. Their wealth is not really theirs anyway. The rich have stolen our productivity gains since the 1970’s and its time for pay back.

Wealth for peace–seems like a pretty good deal top me. Simply look at El Pollo’s description of the DPDDTT–Desperate People Doing Desperate Things Tax.

Spread the wealth for peace–all the rich MF should re-read the below from Micheal’s post. Guess their wealth did not save them. Sharing may have. It does not matter if people agree with this it is simply the way of things unless the wealth is spread.

The maniac who butchered a Brooklyn mom and her four young kids confessed that he did it because he was jealous of their way of life, a police source told The Post on Sunday.

“The family had too much. Their income (and) lifestyle was better than his,” the source said.

The bloody suspect was caught holding the kitchen knife he used during the Saturday night rampage inside the Sunset Park apartment where he had been staying with the victims, the source added.

Libsare Ajoke

the maniac was a democrat

2Gary2

The U.S. government has spent an astounding 3.7 trillion dollars on welfare programs over the past five years.—99% of this on corporate welfare.

Libsare Ajoke

LMAO

2Gary2

Michael–more poor bashing yet nary a mention of the corporations that are the real welfare queens. I know you are throwing red meat to the low information conservatives who read this article and blog but come on really? You know corporate welfare is way way higher than any welfare for the poor yet you in typical conservationism fashion bash the poor.

This is one of many reasons conservatism is crashing and burning as people can see the moral bankruptcy that conservatism is.

Just wait until conservative Obama is out–us liberals will be taking over and we will tax the f out of the rich and scum like walmart.

ConcernedAmerican

Many poor people are hard-working, honest, kind, intelligent people. There are some poor that will give their last dollar to someone in need. There are some poor people in America that have confessed to having to go and get water from creeks and streams, which is hard work, just so they can drink, bathe, and cook. Some poor are mechanics, construction workers, carpenters, etc., also hard work. So, how is it that hard working people are so poor nowadays if so many employers are paying fair wages?

If people are looking for a free ride, where are these great jobs they are passing up to live on welfare and food stamps? Are there sone people that take advantage? Yes. However, many of the poor I have met have had to eat every other day in order to make their benefits last the whole month, and that was buying very cheap foods. Many of the poor I have met would gladly take a living wage job to enjoy financial freedom.

no what i mean vern?

Yes, and the poor eat unhealthy food. They do this for a number of reasons. Number one, they have very little pleasure in their lives so food becomes their only escape. They don’t see a way out of their miserable lives and say, “f_ck it?” I’ll die at 40. Number two, GMO, high fructose corn syrup crap tastes good and all requires little effort to prepare. Number three, and sometimes they live in places that don’t have adequate kitchens/ stoves/ cookware.
It ain’t a pretty picture. Not much to cheer about if you’re not one of the one percent. Now’s not the time to start throwing stones at each other. Jes sayin’ .

2Gary2

stop talking like this. You will upset the world view of Michael and the other rabid conservatives on this site who never let facts control their world view. (I almost said thinking but as one can easily tell there is very little thinking in conservative circles).

davidmpark

Hey, we found you a date! Veronica – lovely girl! 🙂

ConcernedAmerican

I am neither liberal nor conservative. I am quite happy to look at all of the facts and then make decisions for myself. I figure since the Good Lord gave me a brain, and free will, I may as well use it.

no what i mean vern?

Sounds sweet, but won’t happen, Gary. They’re all part of the same club.

2Gary2

“it sounds like retail jobs in general, low pay no incentive to advance,
State and Federal assistance because the Walmart doesn’t pay enough
hourly or enough hours to qualify company benefits, you and I subsidize
for profit companies, corporate welfare at it’s best”

2Gary2

The question becomes one of why should tax payers subsidize the store
owners private wealth which is what is happening. Not paying living
wages costs us all whether or not we shop there. Maybe a little less
owner profits and a little better employee pay would solve my
subsidizing millionaires issues.

Walmart low wages proves you can’t achieve a WIN/WIN result. welfare
payments to Walmart part timers and tax reductions may cost the public
more than any benefits the stores give.

no what i mean vern?

Right! And mix in a little (or lot!) off shoring and you’ve got a nasty scene. Kinda like what we see going on now.

See the documentary “Inequality for All”. It should be required viewing for everyone in the U.S.

ConcernedAmerican

The trailer looks good. Thanks for posting this info.

Nic

Even airline pilots are on food stamps.
U see in 2000 my salary was 24 in usa ,14 years later the same company pay now the same but everything cost more in the USA.
Now follow this trend and in 3 years, people will get a job and will live in the street because Obama care, insurance, fuel rent will be too expensive.
U must recycle, live simple and cheap.
I don’t live in usa. I live in Asia and poor people are better here than in usa.

ConcernedAmerican

Servers in restaurants were making about $2.13 20 years ago. Today, the hourly wage for a server is still about $2.13, even though the cost of living is much higher now. I have watched some people receive excellent service yet receive no tip. I think tips should be included in the USA, just as they are in Europe. It isn’t right to expect someone to live on $2.13 per hour.

TtT Engine

As Gargantuan Government grows it devours hard working Americans and our disposable income shrinks. If this decline continues, we will see fewer and fewer restaurants in business because the majority of Americans have no money left after bills and taxes to eat in restaurants. The loss of jobs, the great entitlement society and Romanesque style government is destroying us. Christi Fidelis !

David

The future of America seems to be very gloomy folks . . .. . What happened to the Nation where all men created equal and prosperity for all? That is really sad . . . .. . . .

Gankfest

This retarded always bans my comments…

M W

Tell yourself whatever it takes, Mannon worshipper.

FounderChurch

The Bible says that in the last days the people will not be able to tolerate strong doctrine. We are there now. I see you as shriveling and crawling under the sofa curled up in the fetal position.

M W

That’s okay, I see you – not other posters, just you – as a little bully hiding behind mommas skirt (the internet). Sling your underhand putdowns all you want, momma’s boy mannon worshipper. You haven’t learned your christ’s lessons, either, you hellbound dog.

whteshark

It will be producers vs takers; rich vs poor; big government vs liberty; it will be race vs race; it will be Civil War II.

Hammerstrike

Rather, a multicivil war!

ConcernedAmerican

Producers=Working class people

Takers/Parasites=Executives and many at the top of the food chain who make the most money for doing the least amount of work.

If hard work pays, the blue collar people should be the wealthiest in every society.

2Gary2

Last month, interestingly, another poll — from the Washington Post and the Miller Center — asked Americans
why the United States now has so few decent jobs. Over three-quarters
of those surveyed, a substantial 76 percent, placed blame on the “gap in
pay between business executives and ordinary workers.”

yep-tax the GD rich and spread the wealth.

2Gary2

Fast food giant McDonald’s can’t afford to pay a living wage. But the company can afford to buy its top execs a new $30-million private jet. Tell CEO Don Thompson to pay decent wages and cancel that jet.

ConcernedAmerican

Good point.

2Gary2

” Mr. de Blasio has proposed raising taxes on the wealthy, whom he
defines as those making more than $500,000, to pay for prekindergarten
and after-school care.”

I love it-Tax the wealthy to keep kids healthy!

de Blasio is going to be a great mayor-way better than the scum bloomburg

2Gary2

Indeed “something did happen
in the mid-’70s.” For one thing, since then workers’ wages as a
fraction of the total economy have lagged by over a trillion dollars per
year. If workers’ wages had kept up with gains in productivity since
the mid-70’s, wages would be double what they are now. Most new income goes to the top 1 Percent.

The rich’s money and wealth was stolen from workers. We need to take it back nicely or not so nicely. It belongs to us, not the rich MF

ConcernedAmerican

Wait staff at restaurants made about $2.13 per hour 20 years ago. Some wait staff are still only making $2.13 all these years later, even though the cost of living is much higher. This gives the impression that wait staff is not valuable. Yet, how many people want to go and eat at a restaurant without wait staff? The working class are the only reason most businesses exist and succeed.

Hammerstrike

4. How can anyone deny that we are a socialist nation when half the people are getting money from the federal government each month? According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, 49.2 percent of all Americans are receiving benefits from at least one government program.

youtube.c o m/watch?v=eGv50uYUHJw

Cauz´ that ain´t socialism.

Nic

I have see at usa airports, when I got free shuttle, before folks were giving tips to drivers. Drivers could make over 15 to 20$/hour
Now people give niet, nada….

theskunkinyourcrawlspace

With all due respect, in those “European socialist welfare states” people are doing much better than here, poverty is the exception rather than the norm. Sure some places like Italy, Spain, Portugal face problems going forward, but that is only because they are not allowed to use their currency exchange rate vs. Euro and $ to re-balance their competitiveness (which they did successfully until the Euro-fun.

chris

Michael I would take issue with you that the USA is a socialist nation especially when you point out yourself that the gap between the haves and have nots is bigger than ever.
In my opinion what you have is a combination of socialism and extreme capitalism/fascism. In order for those at the very top to take most of the spoils under the extreme capitalism system many must lose out further down. The ones further down however are kept going by socialist policies which redistribute wealth from the middle classes, the people at the top having sufficient tax evasion methods and lawyers to prevent them losing that much by redistribution. So the socialist policies, whilst needed by the have nots, are actually enabling an extremely unequal system to persist because otherwise the have nots would riot and bring the whole thing down. Extreme capitalism without the socialist bit would not work, it would destroy itself. Socilaism could then be described as the redistribution of wealth from the middle to the lower to enable the upper to keep getting more of the ‘pie’ in a rotten system. As the upper keeps taking more of the pie the middle will get more and more squeezed.

ConcernedAmerican

We have Crony Capitalism in the USA.

Jacqueleen

This country continues to vote democratic at the Poles without knowing the candidate or the issues on the table. As Einstein has said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. WISE UP VOTERS. Do your research, know the candidate, know his ideology, know his background, know his affiliations, know his education, know where he was born, know his past voting record….make an intelligent decision. Your future and your children’s future depends upon it!

The party for the poor, the Democratic Party is the party for the poor…..that is why they keep them that way….!!!

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George_Smith

I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in how many people are on food stamps. They have been using billboards in Spanish to help people get signed up, along with many other forms of advertising. I know a fellow who was on food stamps who had a brand new home (which I have never owned). His wife was having babies one after another. Just because people are on food stamps, doesn’t necessarily mean they are poor. The government has been promoting this welfare program as a means of buying votes. Under the current president, food stamp recipients have sky rocketed – because they wanted it to. There was a time when people would go without rather than be on public assistance, but those days are gone.

FounderChurch

The Bible says that in the last days the people will not be able to tolerate strong doctrine. We are there now. Consequently we are flooded with a plague of hate filled low information posters. They are pathetic loser Democrats who can only function as cancerous trolls.

Too bad they infect the whole Internet with their illiterate hate trying to ruin a good thing. They are the enemy of all reasoned speech, and good material for the totalitarianism that is on its way. Too bad they don’t realize that they will be the first victims when the dictatorship arrives.

Money is power, and in unrestrained capitalism, the rich will keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer, until one person(or family, at least) owns everything and everybody else is their servant.
We don’t advocate equal-sized slices of the economic pie for everyone, those who contribute more individual initiative should get a bigger slice than those who contribute less. Nevertheless, we do advocate limiting the range of sizes of the slices.
For the laws of natural selection to work there must be winners and losers in a fair competition. But here and now the competition is not fair, and we have top Boeing aeronautical engineers among the losers.

But there is something more important than where a country’s social order sits on the left-right political spectrum. That something is: who owns the country’s currency. The same group of Jewish bankers owns most of the world’s currencies and the governments rent their currencies from them. And this is true pretty much regardless of where a country sits on the left-right political spectrum. They own the currencies of countries with such diverse positions on the left-right political spectrum as, the US, Russia, UK, all of the EU, Israel, all of Latin America, Africa, and most of the Middle East (except Iran), and they are making inroads into China.
Once these people own a country’s currency, the country soon slips into slavery to them. I don’t have time to go into the details of how a private-currency ponzi-scheme works. But pretty soon the bankers own everything and the people become homeless slaves in their own native land.

A “communist” revolution is a pretty vague label. Any revolution regardless of label, must target the parasitic currency Ponzi-schemers. Anything less and they will still be in power after the revolution. For example: the American revolution of 1776. It targeted the King instead of the parasitic Ponzi schemers who owned the Bank of England, and whom the king was hopelessly indebted to. They owned America before and after the revolution and they still do today.

A revolution regardless of label, must target the currency Ponzi-schemers. After they are gone, and the currency issuing power(1) is restored to the government of the people whence it was stolen, then the people can decide where they want the country to sit on the left-right political spectrum, and what they want the country’s Gini index to be.

By the way: The narrowest spread in incomes between rich and poor is to be found in the N European countries, and they don’t call themselves communist.

gene

We usually do not know the full situation of these people but would love to see what I can do to help that chap in the photo. A heartbreaking scene indeed.

There will come a time when we will need someone’s assistance.

Help now, ask questions later.

Its a shame some of these massive wealth doesn’t make its way to some of the very needy. Some of those with wealth just share it with the person in the mirror.

There will come a time when all that wealth will be thrown out into the streets…true…what profits a man if he gain the whole world and looses his own soul.

pulltheweeds

i have never seen a child or an adult who were on food stamps appear to be thin.
they are all fat as pigs
main diet is freetos, fried chicken , and soda .

Jackson

“Yes, things are great in New York City, Washington D.C. and San Francisco,.. ”
Things are NOT “great” in New York. Yes, there is a ton of wealth in New York City, BUT it is not even near being evenly distributed. 46% of New Yorkers (NYC, not including the rest of the state) are “Officially” living in poverty. However, any sensible person knows that the “Official” poverty level is set FAR too low, especially as it pertains to the cost of living in New York City. Therefore, the ACTUAL number of New Yorkers living in poverty is definitely above 46%; it’s certainly over 50%, and considering the actual income level, and the homeless who were NOT counted in the calculation, I’m sure it is upwards of 60%, possibly higher. (Many advocates for the homeless were quick to denounce that report of ‘46%’ stating that the homeless were not counted. It was surprising that the mainstream media reported that rebuttal of the “official” figures.)